High School Cars

[poker]

1970 Chevelle SS

Originally Posted by poker

1970 Chevelle SS

Nice.


First was a 72 Camaro then a 56 Willeys Jeep

[poker]

Originally Posted by ahc4353

Nice.

Hah! You must not have ever seen mine. It was butt ugly with 3 different colors of primer on it. The junkyards helped me keep it running though

[Skywalker]

A 1965 Ford Falcon!!! Piece O Crap!!!

[gettysburgfreak]

2004 Oldsmobile Alero

[Flatsix]

My Senior year, I bought a 55 Chevy 210 Delray very similar in color and look to the one in the picture. Mine had a front bumper. I wish I had it back!

[borndead1]

I had a 1978 Mercury Grand Marquis, nicknamed "The Beast" (of course).

It was turd brown and gigantic. Had some power though, thanks to the 460 under the hood. I got voted "junkiest car" in my senior class.

Once my friends stole my car out of my driveway (I always left the keys in it). They took it to a garage and went nuts with paint. They painted one of the doors orange and put a black "01" on it like the Dukes of Hazard car, taped off the hood and painted it 2 different colors, stenciled "THE BEAST" in huge letters on the trunk, wrote MISFITS on the driver's side door and GARTH BROOKS SUCKS on the passenger's side door...


For some reason I got pulled over by the cops way more after that.

Puke green 1978 Pontiac LeMans, two door with the Landau vinyl top. It looked like something your grandpa would drive, but there were lots of good times in that car.

Thanks for this thread. Brings some great memories back and a smile to my face.

[rack04]

1987 Chevy S10 Blazer.

[icurrie]

I had a 1979 Ford F150 Ranger, regular cab, short box, 351. Loud as H#ll, blue botle exhaust and a 15" sub. Man I loved that truck. I sold it in 1993 when I went to college, tried to find it last tyear to buy it back but found out some kid bought it and wrote it off on the drag strip. What a bummer.

99 Toyota Camry. Took a hit by a Mack dump truck and still whipped ass.

[icehog3]

1971 Ford LTD with the 351 Cleveland engine.....a true ghetto cruiser.

I had a '76 chevy 3/4 ton truck...bought used from the foresty department. got all of like 10 miles per gallon...
I saved up and then bought an old '67 porsche 912... that got me through okay...

[Lucky_Hippo]

1981 Ford Thunderbird

Two tone, black on top and silver on bottom.

Had the pop on wheel covers. Everytime you slammed the breaks, four hubcabs would go rolling past you down the street.

Wish I still owned this one. After I sold it I saw it a year later and the guy had absolutly destroyed it. Wrecked on both sides, broken stering wheel, and huge rips up and down the back seat. I would have been happier if I never saw it again.

What a shame.

[rizzle]

Had a red 1978 Camaro. It was like a lot of my dates, not real pretty but effective.

[mugwump]

'70 Ford Maverick. Puke green with black vinyl seats. Man could that thing fly! It had so much torque that the front of the car would yaw whenever you floored it. The heater was busted (which sucked in Michigan), there was no AC (which sucked in Michigan), there was no radio, and the battery drained every time it rained but I don't think I ever lost in a street race in that beast. Sadly it was lost in a flood only to be replaced by, ta-da!, a '72 Maverick.

And, yes, it's strange to see all the shiny new cars kids drive these days. I don't think I've ever seen a teenager working on a car in my neighborhood whereas when I was a kid that's all anybody did.

[Silound]

I wish I still had pictures of mine. I drove a 1977 Chevrolet C/K 10 pickup with the Bonanza package. It was one of the very limited released numbers (less than 10,000 made) that included a four bolt main 350ci V8 and an oversized heavy duty automatic transmission (these were standard on a basic 1-ton truck, and nearly unheard of for a mere 1/2 ton). Factory A/C, cruise control, manual locks and windows, and upright rectangular towing mirrors (the tall kind that attatched at three points on the door side). Two-tone rust and tan (color rust, not actual rust ) with the gold stripe trim and oversized bumper fenders. Aluminum hubcaps, whitewalls to the outside. Disc/drum (front/rear) brakes, and

The only things that we changed were new upholstery and carpet (old was pretty ratty) in 2004, an AM/FM/Cassette and back corner speakers that were from the '79 model, and shoulder seat belts, also from the '79 model which were all added in '80.

In 2004, with 600K miles, the engine finally gave out. After some cracked seals led to oil leakage, the number 1 & 2 rods stripped the camshaft and threw, causing the piston heads to sink and collect oil in the chamber above. Amazingly there was NO lip formed on the cylinder walls, so to fix it we only had to do a standard 30/1000ths re-bore. The hard part was a new camshaft which had to be custom ordered for the heavier engine.



Was a helluva good truck too.

[awsmith4]

My first car/truck was a 1992 Ford F-150 Flareside

1968 Javelin AMC 290 4BBL 4 speed posi,,,,,,chick magnet for the time.

Originally Posted by rizzle

Had a red 1978 Camaro. It was like a lot of my dates, not real pretty but effective.

excellent line, excellent sir.